JACKIE’S CORNER

Greetings from Chad! We are now in our final week at Hopital Guine Bor II and the guys have worked hard and met the primary goals for coming and now are doing the “etc. stuff” (as in Sanford and Sons). The work they have been doing in the VERY hot

Partners in Hope is a hospital serving clients with HIV/AIDS. Yesterday was an especially full day. We had planned to visit two patients so the vehicle and driver had to be arranged. We finally got the Land Rover and headed out around 10. The first patient was about an hour

Bill and I returned safely back home Saturday midnight a week ago. Bill tells people 87.3% of the project was completed to install a piped medical gas system and battery backup in Tenwek Hospital’s new Eye and Dental Building. The team was unable to commission the system because the building

We travelled to Zambia visiting the CURE International Hospital in Lusaka which serves primarily children with orthopedic (including club feet and cleft lip/palette), neurological (hydrocephalus, tumors, etc) and ENT problems (tubes, tonsillectomies, hearing impairments). We feel privileged to have the opportunity to contribute in a practical way to the outreach

March 17-18, 2016 Thursday- We witnessed the transformation of what was an empty room on Monday with nicely painted leaded sheet rock walls into an official X-ray room with all the equipment and doors that close…and lock. The X-ray technician was trained and tomorrow there will be a clinic so the new machine will

March 13, 2016 While Bill was involved in getting the room ready for the new X-ray machine, I was busy as well. I joined up with a team from a church in Michigan. It was an all women team who participate in the Sunday School ministry of their church. We

May 25, 2014 Hi again! I wrote too much yesterday so I decided to break it into 2 parts….. I know you’re interested in what I’ve been doing here. Cathy, a friend of mine here and my walking partner, asked if I would be interested in helping her with “asset

May 13, 2015 We arrived safely yesterday in early afternoon. Dusin is nestled in mountains close to Kujip only about a 20 minute trip from there. As we began to descend, I wondered where in the world we would land. All I could see was a mountain straight ahead but

May 2, 2015 We’ve been here a week today – our halfway mark here at Kompiam (but still another 3 weeks left here in PNG). Some of our team – Robert, Judith and Earl – head out tomorrow. Lance and Missy will stay on here with us. It’s been a

October 9, 2014 Hello all again, Bill has been telling you I’d write and so here we go… The first patient I became involved with was a new mom of twins who had a stroke sometime during or after their birth. When Woody and I first visited her, she was